Cloth-measuring machine



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Na 243,253. Patented June'2l, 1881.

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JOSEPH A. HEAD, JAMES B. BURVILLE, AND CARY A. HEAD, OF BAIN- BRIDGE, OHIO.

CLOTH-MEASURING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters Patent No. 243,253, dated June 21, 1881,

Application filed March 21, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEPH A. HEAD, JAMES R. BUR-VILLE, and CARY A. HEAD, of Bainbridge, Ross county, Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Gloth-Measurer; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a top-plan view of our improved cloth-measurer. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section, and Fig. 4 is a detail view of our improved clutch.

Our invention relates to improvements in devices for measuring, rolling, and unrollin g cloth; and it consists first in the peculiar construction of the chuck for holding the reelshaft or cloth-beam on which the cloth is wound or unwound, and the devices for adjusting said chuck, whereby it is adapted to hold clothbeams of different lengths, and capable of being adjusted to receive and hold a cylindrical reel-shaft, or cloth beam or board.

Onrinvention furtherconsists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts whereby an arm carrying one-half of the chuck can be slid back and forth in ways in a slotted plate, and held in any desired position to receive and hold a reel-shaft of any desired length by means of a rack on the frame and a pawl on the sliding-arm, operated by a camlever and spring.

Our invention further consistsin the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts by means of which the cloth is measured, consistin g of a graduated cloth-supporting wheel, around the periphery of which the cloth passes from the reel-shaft, drawn therefrom by hand, said wheel being provided with a pin on its front face, which gears into one of the cogs of a graduated measuring-wheel, whereby the number of yards or feet, or other measures drawn from the reel-shaft, are indicated on the faces of said wheels.

My invention also consists in the general construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Arepresents a slotted plate, adapted to be arranged, preferabl y transversely, on a counter, and provided with a slot, B, and ways, 0, arranged on each side of the slot, forming recesses D to receive a T-shaped sliding arm, 0, hereinafter more fully described. One of the ways (3 is provided on its inner longitudinal face with a rack, E, for a purpose hereinafter explained.

To the outer end of the slotted plate A, at

the termination ofits slot, is secured the upright or standard I, having at its upper end a journ al-bearin g, G, to receive the shaft or axle I of one half, H, of the cylindrical chuck, provided with deep serrations or notches adapted to receive and hold one end of the reel-shaft. The outer end of the shaft I is provided with a crank, J, by means of which the reel-shaft may be revolved in either direction to wind or unwind the cloth.

K are staples secured to the upright F and slotted plate A for the reception of removable rods L, passing thence through eyes M.

0 represents a sliding arm, T-shaped in cross-section, and adapted to slide back and forth in the recesses D in the slotted plate A.

To the outer end of the sliding arm 0 is secured the upright P, provided atits upperend with a screw-threaded bearing, Q, adapted to receive the headed shaft R, screw-threaded about half its length, and capable of being adjusted back and forth in the bearingQ. The inner end of the shaft or screw R is pointed and adapted to bear against the center of a round or cylindrical reel-shaft. S represents a sleeve adapted to fit over and slide on' the shaft It, and is provided with deep serrations on one end to hold one end of the reel-shaft forming one part of the chuck, and is provided with a flange, U, at its opposite end, which engages with an angular metallic piece, or, attached to a collar, V, sliding on the shaft R and provided with a set-screw, W, by means of which construction the sleeve S, forming half the chuck, may be moved back and forth on the shaft R and secured in any desired position. is employed the pointed end of the shaft R is made to engage with the center of said shaft, and when a board is employed as a reel-shaft the set-screw is loosened and the sleeve S moved forward on the shaft B, so that its ser- When around orcylindrical reel-shaft rated end projects beyond the point of the shaft, said serrated end holding the board forming the reel-shaft. By screwing back and forth the shaft R in its screw-threaded bearing any nice adjustments of one-half the chuck can readily be effected.

The inner end of the recessed sliding arm 0 is cut away, and an angular plate, X, is secured to the sliding arm over the top and end of the cut-away portion. A cam, a, provided with a pawl, b, and handle 0, is pivoted to a shaft having its bearingsin the angular plate and sliding arm, and a spring, d, secured at one end to the sliding arm, and having its free end passing through a slit in the outer end of the angular plate X, presses against the cam to force the pawl in engagement with the rack on the way 0, to hold the sliding arm in any desired position as the sliding arm is moved back and forth to adapt it to reel-shafts of (lifferent lengths.

To the upright 1? of the sliding arm 0 is pivoted an arm, 0, carrying a prrsser-wheel,f, resting on the cloth.

To the standard F is pivoted the arm g, carrying at its angular outer end a measuringwheel, h, centrally pivoted thereto. The measuring-wheel is graduated on its outer face, and is provided with a series of cogs, surrounding its circumference, and a pointer, m.

Above the measuringwheel, and in close proximity thereto, is situated the cloth -supporting wheel 1', pivoted to the arm g, and graduated on its face in fractional parts of the graduations on the measuring-wheel, and provided with a pin, j, adapted, in the revolution of the cloth-supporting wheel, as the cloth passing over said wheel is drawn by hand from the reel-shaft, to engage with a cog in the measuring-wheel and turn it one cog for each revolution of the cloth-supporting wheel.

It represents a spring pressing on the cloth to hold it against the cloth-wheel as the cloth is drawn off said wheel; and Z is a pointer, indicating the fractional measurements on the cloth-wheel.

In practice the sliding arm is adjusted by sliding it out or in, so the parts of the chuck will receive the reel-shaft, and,making the necessary adjustments of the screw-shaft R and sleeve S, the cloth passes from the reel-shaft around the cloth-supportin g wheel, held thereto by the spring, and passes thence under the rods L, and is drawn by hand from the reelshaft, the measuring-wheel and cloth-wheel indicating by their graduations the number of yards, for example, and inches drawn from the reel-shaft. Cloth may also be wound upon a reel-shaft from a bolt of cloth by turning the half-chuck S, having flange U, and collar V,

having angular piece a, and set-screw W, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the sliding arm 0, provided with the upright 1?, having the screwthreaded bearing Q, of the headed screw R, pointed at its inner end, cylindrical half-chuck S, having flange U, collar V, angular piece a, and set-screw W, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with the recessed slotted plate A, provided with the ways (I, rack E, and standard F, carrying the half-chuck H, of the recessed sliding arm 0, having the upright 1?, carrying the half-chuck S, cam a,

pawl I), and springd, substantially as described,

and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination, with a cloth-carrying beam and the pivoted arm g, carrying the measuring and supporting wheels at its outer end, of the graduated measuring-wheel h, cogged on its circumference, graduated cloth-supporting wheel 1', having pin j, and spring k, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

5. The combination, with a cloth-carrying beam, of the pivoted arm g, carrying at its outer end the measuring and cloth supporting wheels, of the graduated measuring coggeu wheel h, graduated wheel t, spring 7c, and pointers lm, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

6. The combination, with the slotted plate A, provided with the standard F, carrying the half-chuck H, and crank J, ways 0, and rack E, of the recessed sliding arm 0, spring-pawl b, removable rods L, upright P, having the screw-threaded bearing Q, pointedscrew R, half-chuck S, with flange U, and collar V, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOSEPH A. HEAD. JAMES R. BURVILLE. GARY A. HEAD. Witnesses JAMEs WOLFE, T. E. HAYES. 

